Antakya, Turkey Travel Blogs

Ramazan Ends
Nov 4, 2005 (10 photos)

... natured, very real tensions do exist between the Turks and those of Kurdish ancestry. Just before we boarded our bus for Antakya, a diminutive man with rather glassy eyes and a grin plastered on his face (obviously celebrating Biram a little much, too) ...

I can see green again!
Jul 15, 2007

Left Syria today and arrived in Antakya, Turkey with my group.  The city is tucked into and running up some beautiful mountains.  It is such a nice change to have a change in scenery.  Seeing so many countries in such a ...

Antioch and the First Christian Church
Mar 3, 2008 (17 photos)

... time, the priest chanted psalms. At the same time as the church cave, the Romans were firmly established in Antioch, called Antakya.  A large number of well-preserved mosaics and sculpture testify to this, housed in the city museum.  The ...

Left olympos with michael and kylie and we ...
Nov 17, 2000

... in the gutter again. Highpoint of the trip was a jacknifed ayran (milk) tanker in the middle of the road. Arrived at 9am in Antakya in on piece and got a bus to the Syrian town of Aleppo. In the bus station got approached by a few money changers ...

antioch
Nov 9, 2008 (2 photos)

erstmal dıe vıdeos...war die letzten 2 tage ın pamukkale...1 tag zu vıel. Heute durfte ıch den ganzen tag auf den bus richtung antioch warten. Und in syrien wartet doch jemand auf mich...hoffe ich zumindest :=) aber eigtl ...

Antakya is beautiful
Jul 19, 2007

... and charge the cellphone so we can get in touch with S, our friend who has a farm, an oasis really, outside of Antakya. i meet a young woman while making the phone call and she ends up guiding us to our necessary destination all the while chatting with me ...

We have a winner!
Apr 21, 2007 (3 photos)

... and doing laundry.  While I was looking forward to seeing all the of the ancient sites, they are mostly gone.  Today, Antakya is only really notable for having a more arab feel than the rest of Turkey.  This is mainly due to the fact that ...

Antakya en toute vers Chypre
Aug 15, 2005

Chypre : nous sommes en route . Guevan on arrive !!! Enfin j'espere (on a deja avale 8 de route depuis Petra a 7h00 AM et nous prenons un bus de nuit pour la turquie ce soir). Si tout va bien on prendra le ferry demain midi depuis Silifke (on arrive a ...

Taking the Turkey out of Turkey...
Nov 1, 2006 (5 photos)

... small tree (....bush.... shrub...) though and hopefully didn't scare too many of the locals... My final stop in Turkey was Antakya. Very much a Mediterranean town with the care free and friendly attitude to boot. Among other things, Antakya is famous ...

Antakya onward to Arabia
May 25, 2009

Took a very long and exhausting bus and minibus ride to Antakya, Turkey and Im currently at the bus terminal waiting for my 11AM bus to Aleppo, Syria. I had planned to enter Syria from Gaziantep, but after Hong shared his experience of taking one terrible ...

From Nigde to Antakya
Apr 10, 2008

... , treatment like this (See previous entry). Shortly out of Niğde I got a call on my cell phone from a fellow in Antakya. I am a member of a social network of travellers (sort of like Facebook). The essential idea is that one can "couchsurf" with like- ...

Top Ten Turkish Delights
Sep 30, 2009 (10 photos)

... then you see an even better one. From the Acropolis at Bergama to the Gypsy Girl in Gaziantep to the Happy Hunchback of Antakya...... 10) The Buses. Apparently we come from the 4th wealthiest economy in the world and one of the most advanced and efficient ...

You Say Antakya, I Say Antioch
Apr 11, 2008 (1 photos)

2nd May 2008 Not Much Doin' in Antioch   Upon getting into Antioch/Antakya, meeting Koray and taking my gear to his apartment--a short walk from his university office--we met a university friend of his, Varol Topaç. The two of them treated me to ...

Border town
Oct 30, 2009

... agency to bus station and then stop.  The tourist's silvery-tongued guides cease and the tempest of Turco-Arabian Antakya begins. As a cyclist having travelled from central Europe, I was, to my jet-wash black marketeers very obviously insane and ...

MOVING DAY ANTAKYA TURKEY
Mar 14, 2009 (2 photos)

... and stopped at the WC. So the bus just kept on moving forward with us walking behind slowly catching up on it. The ride into Antakya, Turkey was only 1 hour. We passed a truck that had flipped over. The road is so narrow most of the way to the edge ...

ST. PETER'S CHURCH THE FIRST CHURCH
Mar 15, 2009 (5 photos)

... which is now known as St. Peter's Church. This was between the years 29 and 40. In 1098 the crusaders who conquered Antakya extended the church with two arches on the front. The floor still has some traces of mosaic tiles and there was a fresco on ...

The Arab Antakya
Nov 9, 2007 (36 photos)

... and walnuts) and a beer (Efes of course) - all for only 11 dollars, another bargain. So that concludes my time in Antakya - I really enjoyed this city, especially because of the food! Tomorrow I am off to Aleppo in Syria and am really looking forward to ...

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Nov 9, 2007

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A good sign?
Aug 23, 2009

Hmmm, in the last few days I have seen a very steady increase in the number of emails I am getting from recruiting agents back in London - is this a good sign that the economy is improving? The number of emails I am recieving is up quite a lot from even a ...

Bab al-Hawa crossing
Nov 15, 2007 (20 photos)

November 15, 2007 Antakya, Turkey Antakya or Hayat (almost every town in Turkey has two names and they both are recognized by the people) was the site of the Biblical Antioch where St. Peter visited and later wrote a letter back to some people he met ...

Hitching to Syria (part 3)
Jun 21, 2008

... in the cab with Okay.  He turned out to be far more than his name suggested, not only driving us the whole way to Antakya (our destination and his home town), but also buying us drinks, melon and a full dinner.  Then to cap it all off,  ...

a rest before syria
Nov 2, 2009

I left late from antayla for a nite bus trip to antakya, on the border for my crossing into turkey.  I stayed 2 nites here, and it rained 1 day, but it was warm, so everything was ok.

Nusaybin - Adana - Antakya
Nov 26, 2007 (15 photos)

Itinerary : Nusaybin - Adana - Antakya Dates : 25th to 26th of November 2007 Mileage in Turkey : 1560 km Mileage so far : 16960 km. We were suppose to be riding in Jordan for already 2 days but guess where we are!...Still in Turkey! Indeed, we are ...

ANTAKYA TO CAPPRADOCIA
Mar 17, 2009

... and the other said 8. Were we ever surprised. It was an enjoyable ride through the hilly country side heading out of Antakya, we really climbed high over these mountains, and then down to the Mediterranean Sea with palm trees on our left side and on ...

In Turkey!
Mar 22, 2008

... as I make my way north. There are some really nice looking smallish mountains here that I'd like to climb already! I'm in Antakya, which doesn't seem to get all that much praise in the guidebook, but I quite like it... there's the mountain backdrop with ...

Ancient Antioch
May 11, 2006 (3 photos)

... to me. Well, it's just another city - nothing too special. I stopped briefly to check out the famed mosaics in the Antakya Museum. They were mostly taken from nearby Harbiye (ancient Daphne). Some were good, but the more I visit these sites the more I ...

MEDITERRANIAN SEA, TOMBS AND TUNNELS
Mar 16, 2009 (5 photos)

... It wasn't really cold, but you would be if you came out today with the wind. Caught a bus back into Samandag and then to Antakya. We enjoyed watching and listening to the women on the bus joke and laugh during the ride. Back to the hotel for a rest and ...

Prey in the City of God
Feb 10, 2006

... dwell on these things for too long. I walked on. But before I move on in this narration, I may as well something about Antakya. For the city's historic value, the city that was also once the 3rd largest in the Roman Empire, it isn't that special today. ...

Anatakya (Turkey)
Mar 9, 2007

... some more before headıng off vıa the kıng,s hwy to Jerash where ı stayed the nıght before reachıng the border next mornıng. So now ıts Turkey and so far no such tıme restrıctıons as Jordan and Syrıa so I hope to spend close to a month here as per the orıgınal plan, ...

Antakya, The Last Out-Post. Turkey
Sep 19, 2008

... . It constantly amazes me at how many people travel at night in the country! I don't have much to say really on Antakya except that its like the last outpost before heading to conservative Aleppo in Syria. The concept of giving some random guy my ...